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SUBMITTER: Haruna IL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7552700 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Haruna Ishaku L IL Li Yunhai Y Ekegbu Ugonna J UJ Amirpour-Najafabadi Hamed H Zhou Huitong H Hickford Jon G H JGH
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20200819 9
The myostatin gene (<i>MSTN</i>), which encodes the protein myostatin, is pleiotropic, and its expression has been associated with both increased and decreased adipogenesis and increased skeletal muscle mass in animals. In this study, the polymerase chain reaction, coupled with single strand conformation polymorphism analysis, was utilized to reveal nucleotide sequence variation in bovine <i>MSTN</i> in 410 New Zealand (NZ) Holstein-Friesian × Jersey (HF × J)-cross cows. These cows ranged from 3 ...[more]